Woodstock, given an Academy Award for Best Documentary on April 15, 1971.
Woodstock, given an Academy Award for Best Documentary on April 15, 1971.
April 10, 1972: the biggest fake fur bow tie and fake fur lapels you’ve ever seen. His grandmother was his date that night, days before her 80th birthday.
A relatively understated costume, but only relatively: bare-chested and draped in gold chains, a blatantly political statement. Something along the lines of: “You think Black men belong in chains? Here I am, wearing chains worth more than everything you own combined.”
It was the first time a composer performed his own work on the Oscars, and Isaac’s win represented the first time a Black performer won an award outside the acting categories. Indeed, this ceremony was co-hosted by Sammy Davis, Jr., the first Black performer in that role too.
I may be remembering wrong, but this is also the first time I can recall a full-scale production number for a Best Song performance – before this, they’d all been one person and microphone, and that’s it.
This is not that! Hit play and get ready to lose your mind!
(Note that this clip has come and gone half a dozen times since I’ve been doing this blog, so please search for it even if this embed breaks.)
James Brown on Soul Train with host Don Cornelius, 1973, my edit of original via soulride
Janis Joplin, San Francisco 1968, by Baron Wolman
John Lennon, by Harry Benson.
Jimbert: HOWL Lotta Love
Nancy & Ann Wilson (Heart) with Stevie Nicks
Bruce Springsteen, 1978, by James Shive via backstreets
The Rolling Stones, Ready Steady Go, 1964
Pink Floyd, 1967, by Andrew Whittuck
Alice Cooper with Kachina, 1971
Adorably Robert Smith, 2015, by Andy Vella, my edit of original via radiox
John (in overalls!!!) & Yoko at Tittenhurst, 1971
